w1903 – A Peoria-based “Laborers” union (for any worker not in a union)

w American Federation of Labor Federal Labor Union 8857 chartered Jan. 31, 1901 as the “Hod Carriers & Building Laborers Union.” The AFL chartered local unions without an international as “Federal Labor Unions,” meaning they were AFL directly affiliated.

May 1938 – 165 members Leonard Buckingham, and Kenneth Eber Lee, who was working under the name of Ted Smith, awarded a Carnegie Medal for rescuing assistant engineer Harry Opper from a pit at Hiram-Walker. Lee died during the rescue